82 THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM 



In this bill it is seen that if this dairyman had sold his milk 

 to a shipping station buying regular market milk for New 

 York, he would have received $191.25; but this bill shows 

 that certain premiums are received by the dairyman of 

 Homer, because he carries his milk to the Homer station. 

 The fact that his cows were tuberculin-tested increased his 

 check $16.87; the fact that his milk contained a bacteria 

 count averaging less than 10,000 for the month brought him 

 in $11.25. He also received a premium for richness, because 

 his butter fat was above 3.7 per cent, which is the standard 

 set by this station. 12 



The additional cost of running the station, over and 

 above that of an ordinary bottling station, was %c., 

 so that the additional cost of supplying a tuberculin- 

 tested milk with a bacteria count under 30,000 at time 

 of delivery was one and one-half cents a quart, an 

 amount which certainly cannot be considered excessive.* 



Certified milk, owing to its requirements, which 

 are out of reach of the rank and file of farmers, and its 

 small volume of production, costs on the average 6 

 cents more than ordinary market milk. But here is 

 milk of the highest grade, at a moderate cost, requiring 

 for its production only an ordinary stable and equipment, 

 healthy cows properly cared for (tuberculin-tested if the 

 milk is to be sold raw), healthy milkers, and the exercise 

 of exceedingly simple sanitary precautions. 



(For further details the reader is referred to the 

 fuller account of the North system in Appendix C, 

 where a list of Dr. North's publications is also given.) 



* If a non-tuberculin-tested but pasteurized clean milk be desired, 

 the extra cost would be, on this basis, not over one cent. Milk can be 

 commercially pasteurized for Ic. or less per quart (see Appendix D). 



